How many of you wore a suit to your interview?

[Defrag]

I've always been told smart casual, but if in doubt you could always just ask.

[von*ferret]

Fuggin love suits, but klein and kfs were right. Dont wear a suit.

[Grin]

A little offtopic, but I'm currently looking for a summer job (any job that is) and I've noticed that If there is one thing I really suck in, then it's looking for a job. I've made about 50 applications, made some calls and been in a couple of interviews, but I'm still looking.

The worst case was when this woman that called me for a job interview started accusing me of all kinds of arrogant stuff that was in my application. And there was nothing really, It was even made of a form on their website. In the end I got a bit mad and ended the call by saying "oh I didn't remember slavery still excisted in finland". Then I just hung up.

[Defrag]

Did you follow up on any of the applications and ask them how you could improve your chances? (particularly the ones where you made it to the interview stage.)

[kleinluka]

@grin: what kind of job was that with the lady if i may ask? thats pretty ridicolous lol. but kudos for hanging up on her.. you wouldnt want to work for someone like that :S

[Furyo]

Chances are she acted like this to see how you'd react in a stressing situation. And she probably got the answer she needed.

[Fletch]

I was warned not to. I wore nice jeans, an untucked dress shirt, and a loose tie. The metrosexual artist look.

[Grin]

@grin: what kind of job was that with the lady if i may ask? thats pretty ridicolous lol. but kudos for hanging up on her.. you wouldnt want to work for someone like that :S

It's one of the biggest security companies in Finland, this particular case was at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport, as a guard on a gate to the runways and some patrolling. I was a military police in my army service and I have pretty much experience on the same things that they were looking for, so I decided to give it a try.

The main thing she started to accuse me of was, that I had wished that because it's a big company it would be easy to change shifts with my colleaques if necessary. I am competing on athletics pretty high on national level and I only wrote this because they requested at least one reason in why you are applying for this company.

SO: First she started moralizing me about how you shouldn't try things like that behind the employers back and how it would be dangerous in case something happened and there was somebody at the gate who wasn't supposed to. Well, of course I told her that I meant handling this stuff through the employer, officially. Then she said "oh we don't let our workers decide when they come to work" In a pretty rude voice, where I still replied that it was of course OK by me and it was only a possibility I was hoping for. After this came the A-bomb of our 15 minute discussion. "If we decide to hire you we will pretty much decide where you are at a given moment from then on" I'm having some problems in translating this in a proper way, but the main idea of what she said was that they would pretty much own me. Which is when I told him what I wrote before.

There was more before this, but this was the end of it. A friend of mine also applied for the job and got some pretty rude stuff too, but unlike me he staid cool. He didn't get the job either.

[FrieChamp]

Another piece of information some might find useful:

Don't apply for the CEO position

[General Vivi]

[Bic-B@ll]

excellent point, helmets are important to wear on job interviews

[Thrik]

Hahaha.

[Evert]

[SPQR]

Were suit... hum, the last interview for a job (actually, the actual one), i wore a Slayer shirt...

[General Vivi]

excellent point, helmets are important to wear on job interviews